Laboratory

Columbia University

"A new culture (the Machine Age?) selected Manhattan as a laboratory: a mythical island where the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle and its attendant architecture could be pursued as a collective experiment in which the entire city became a factory of man-made experience, where the real and the natural ceased to exist."
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York

Possible Disasters

Emergency Communications System at Madison Square Garden

"Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen."
Rem Koolhaas,  Delirious New York

Rosetta Stone

Sidewalk Art by Keith Haring (Prince and Broadway)

"Manhattan is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone."
Rem Koolhaas,  Delirious New York

Ecstasy about Architecture

Chrysler Building

"Manhattan has consistently inspired in its beholders ecstasy about architecture."
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York